Capacity Building and Restructuring of Libraries and Information Centers: a Spotlight

Panda, Bibhu Prasad, Swain, Dillip K. and Jena, Kamal Lochan Capacity Building and Restructuring of Libraries and Information Centers: a Spotlight., 2009 . In ICSSR National Seminar on Capacity Building for Library Professionals in Digital Environment, 20-21 September 2009. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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English abstract

Capacity building involves man-machine interfaces in organizations to enhance operating efficiency, expertise and skills of personnel towards the achievement of organizational excellence and concurrently library capacity is focused on community building. This paper builds a conceptual framework of capacity building & library restructuring and attempts to put focus on some of the basic aspects of library capacity building leading to re-engineering of library and information centers in the wake of changing scenario of informatics.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: capacity building, capacity development, library restructuring, digital libraries, ICT
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information.
Depositing user: Dr. Dillip K Swain
Date deposited: 19 Jan 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:14
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13192

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